Tuesday, April 04, 2006
How Toxic Was My Valley
How Toxic Was My Valley
By Joel Schwartz 04 Apr 2006
Based on EPA's own estimates, air pollution even in the "most toxic" areas of the country poses a miniscule cancer risk. More importantly, EPA's cancer risk estimates are grossly inflated, because they depend on the false assumption that chemicals pose the same per-unit cancer risks at real-world trace exposures as they do at massive laboratory exposures.
Here's another area where some straight (and straightforward) talk would be helpful. Joel does a fine job of making sense out of a complex issue for the reader, and for that I commend him.
By Joel Schwartz 04 Apr 2006
Based on EPA's own estimates, air pollution even in the "most toxic" areas of the country poses a miniscule cancer risk. More importantly, EPA's cancer risk estimates are grossly inflated, because they depend on the false assumption that chemicals pose the same per-unit cancer risks at real-world trace exposures as they do at massive laboratory exposures.
Here's another area where some straight (and straightforward) talk would be helpful. Joel does a fine job of making sense out of a complex issue for the reader, and for that I commend him.
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